CPU Blown?

I have an AMD APU in my HTPC. We were using it the other day and it just died. Flash on the tv and now it won't do anything. I've eliminated any cable issue by re seating each cable (power cables all over and sata to SSD). I've re seated the ram. I removed the hard drive and verified it's working correctly, did chkdsk on another windows PC. Nothing. Every time I press the start button the fans for the PSU and CPU run, but I can't even get to post. I hook up a usb keyboard and press delete and F9 which in the past would put me in bios, but I can't even get that far. I thought about re seating the CPU, but I don't have any paste and am trying not to buy a whole tube when you need barely 1/8th a tube for a single CPU. My next thought is to try each ram stick individually just to verify.

I took each stick and moved it to first slot and it booted each time, so I put both back into their respective slots according to the manual and it still worked. Why it just stopped working midway through a tv show 2 nights ago is kinda weird though....

I took each stick and moved it to first slot and it booted each time, so I put both back into their respective slots according to the manual and it still worked. Why it just stopped working midway through a tv show 2 nights ago is kinda weird though....

Yea sounds kinda weird. Have you checked for newer bios or tested the RAM?

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